“Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.”

“The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.”

“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”

“We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”

“I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.”

“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.”

“I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.”

“The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.”

“You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.”

“A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.”

“I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.”

“Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.”

“According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.”

“I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.”

“Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.”

“But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.”

“If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.”

“In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.”

“I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.”

“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”